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Date:      Sat, 11 Jul 2015 08:58:07 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com>,  freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Building TB from source code
Message-ID:  <44io9qj1gg.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <20150711045325.9eed25ae.freebsd@edvax.de> (Polytropon's message of "Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:25 %2B0200")
References:  <55A03950.6090209@gmail.com> <55A05CFE.90608@columbus.rr.com> <55A0843A.9050806@gmail.com> <20150711045325.9eed25ae.freebsd@edvax.de>

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Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> writes:

> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:49:30 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 07/10/2015 06:02 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On 07/10/15 17:29, jd1008 wrote:
>> >> Has anyone been successful in building it from source code?
>> >> Last time I tried, build failed because it required versions
>> >> of packages that were of much older vintage than what was installed.
>> >> Too many for me to recall.
>> >>
>> >> Need helpful hints, how-to's to accomplish this.
>> >>
>> >> I posted the same question to Fedora list and it has been
>> >> so totally ignored, that I find it very interesting.
>> > By TB I am thinking thunderbird...correct?
>> >
>> > Yes I build Thunderbird and firefox all the time using poudriere.
>> >
>> > Works for me.
>> Cool!
>> I wonder if you tried it on the TB or FF sources you downloaded directly 
>> from mozilla.com???
>
> Poudriere will use the sources from the FreeBSD ports collection.

Which in the case of Firefox and Thunderbird,
will pull in the sources from mozilla.com.


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